Learn the Electric Chorus of Green Day's "Wake Me Up When September Ends"

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We're looking at Green Day's "Wake Me Up When September Ends" and in this segment we're going to look at the chorus with an electric guitar distorted. Let's take a look. Now, we just came out of this part (audio demo). In this section, where you got to use a power chord versions of the same chords we used in the other chorus with the acoustic guitar. The power chord versions are these chords, an open E string, second fret A and second fret B. You just strum these lowest three. The next one is a power chord version of that B minor chord. It's the second fret of A string with your index finger, the fourth fret of the D string with your ring finger here, and the fourth fret of the G string with your pinkie. That's what that sounds like. Slide that up one, the whole thing, to the third, fifth and fifth, and you have a C power chord. We're going to move this whole form down a string to the third fret of the low E string, fifth fret of the A string and fifth fret of the D string. This is the modified G that we're playing. Again, we're going to slide, keeping our ring and index in the same position on the fifth fret, we're going to slide our index down to the second fret. Then we're going to repeat it again. You know, the only chord in the chorus is that D chord. To play that you come up to the fifth fret of the A string, the seventh fret of the D string with our ring finger, and the seventh fret of the G string. It sounds like this. All together, those riffs in sequence, sound like this. (audio demo) Up to the D. Then it goes back into a verse. We basically got all the rhythm parts of the song down. In the next segment we're going to take a look at the solo. I'll see you there.

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